On Friday 19 May 2006 17:53, David Härdeman wrote:
> # Convert common terms for disk sizes into something LVM understands.
> +# e.g. "200 Gb" -> "200G"
> #
> human2lvm() {
> - input="$1"
> - input=`echo "$input" | sed -e 's/ \+KB/K/'`
> - input=`echo "$input" | sed -e 's/ \+MB/M/'`
> - input=`echo "$input" | sed -e 's/ \+GB/G/'`
> - input=`echo "$input" | sed -e 's/ \+TB/T/'`
> - input=`echo "$input" | sed -e 's/ \+\(.\)/\1/'`
> - echo "$input"
> + echo "$1" | tr -d " " | sed -e 's/\([kmgtKMGT]\)[bB]/\1/'
> }
There is one thing I do not understand about this patch.
I looks as if the size multiplier (KMGT) should be uppercase and the new
patch supports both lowercase and uppercase. On the other hand, the last
old line seems to accept any one-character size multiplier.
A short explanation would be welcome.
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